Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [det] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er we were passing this M |
| 2 | thinking er you were saying that er |
| 3 | and they were saying that er , South Africa 's going to have to import food this year |
| 4 | it 's like Fiona at school right he , o , Vicky and Iona were having this ma , major crisis about whether to tell her she 's got B O ? |
| 5 | They were doing this , they were doing this lo , yesterday this su , windsurfing , they were doing windsurfing indoors . |
| 6 | They were doing some a , in the renovating something . |
| 7 | Rec , erm the lady behind was stating that recent a , I mean recently I had about , er went through a bereavement , lost |
| 8 | By 1990 , Otis was buying more L2 detectors than ‘ R ’ model units . |
| 9 | My mum , my mum was saying that erm , at Maria 's playgroup , they were erm , they got , they got a ticking off , because of , they said to them you know you really should be introducing black dolls to the children , which is fair enough , but they also |
| 10 | Well it looks like it , I know she was saying that er on about er |
| 11 | yeah , Cliff was saying that er , he said all yeah , he said he 's er he goes through the if , if you 're not sort of paying attention to him you |
| 12 | I mean he was saying that er erm what do you call him ? |
| 13 | Well how much ? well I think it is Pat , that 's why I asked because Angela was saying some er it was gon na be nine pound and that was with the well I think I 'll have |
| 14 | We should see him soon he was doing some er curtain tracks for us . |
| 15 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 16 | but the thing is I was reading this erm , I was reading another book on this erm |
| 17 | We was carrying this ta erm table up the stairs and some boy knocked it and it fire alarms , everyone was , water started pouring down cos they have all the water as well , like , if it is a fire it was pouring |
| 18 | But I mean that would just be an argument about where they set the level that you no longer were to qualify for child benefit , but I mean , bu , you know , presuma , presumably er , th the point the man was was making that er , the child benefit goes equally |
| 19 | Then thes they used a pole this er and you used to have to behind stripping all these off lace off the pins while these here ladies was folding this er net up . |